--- title: It buries its poo so enemies cannot smell it, scratches to clean its… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: It buries its poo so enemies cannot smell it, scratches to clean its claws and leave scent, and kneads your jumper the way it once kneaded its mother to make the milk flow. Who acts: Most, enemies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most, enemies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.lesson:3 # text = It buries its poo so enemies cannot smell it, scratches to clean its claws and leave scent, and kneads your jumper the way it once kneaded its mother to make the milk flow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 buries bury VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 poo poo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 so so SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 scratches scratch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 19 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 kneads knead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 jumper jumper NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 29 advmod _ _ 29 kneaded knead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | present | Most | Most's poo | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Theme | | 2 | **not** **smell** | can | enemies | Most | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **scratch** | present | Most *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **clean** | to-infinitive | Most *not said here* | Most's claws | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | | 5 | **leave** | infinitive | Most *not said here* | scent | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme | | 6 | **knead** | present | Most *not said here* | your jumper | | | | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent jumper=Material | | 7 | **knead** | past | Most | Most's mother | | | | once *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent mother=Material | | 8 | **make** | to-infinitive | Most *not said here* | the milk flow | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flow=Product | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.lesson:3`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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